ABOUT | Jose Mora-Jimenez

JOSE MORA-JIMENEZ (1977)

I was born in Costa Rica, where I studied Classical Guitar and Music Composition at the University of Costa Rica. I've been living in the Netherlands since 2006 where I studied composition at The Royal Conservatory in The Hague, I also followed the master’s degree Cultural Economics and Cultural Entrepreneurship at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam where I graduated Cum Laude.

My music has been published and recorded in different countries and is regularly performed around the world. I'm currently active as a composer of modern music as well as composer of music for video games and media.

SELECTED RECOGNITIONS AND AWARDS

Third prize and Bergman Edition Special Prize at the Aalborg International Composer Competition for Classical Guitar, Denmark (2024).

Winner of the Central American Composition Contest of the World Piano Teachers Association (2021)

Winner of the Costa Rican National Music Prize in Composition, Costa Rica (2018)

Third prize at the Rust International Guitar Festival Composition Competition, Austria (2017).

Winner of The International Timo Korhonen Composition Competition, Finland (2016).

Third prize at the Nilufer International Classical Guitar Competition, Turkey (2015)

Honorable Mention at the Boston Guitarfest Composition Competition, USA (2013).

Winner of the 4th Calefax Reed Quintet composition competition 2011, the Netherlands (2011).

Winner of composition competition of the association “Vrienden van het lied”, the Netherlands (2011).

Second prize at the Boston Guitarfest Composition Competition, USA (2009).